I am thankful for this second chance as I didn't apply originally because I felt God telling me not to tell anyone before and on Christmas day, just how bad things are for us. I didn't want people feeling sorry for us, so I put a big smile on my face and carried on.

Some of you may have noticed that I haven't been on here as often as I used to be. The week after Thanksgiving, what was left of my world fell completely apart.

I am married to a man that is twenty-five years older then me. He has Alzheimer's and requires 24 hour a day care. On top of that his heart is giving out and he needs open heart surgery, he used to be able to at least take out the trash and enjoyed getting outside. Now that is not even possible.

Before his Alzheimer's completely took over he was able to pay the bills, or so I thought. The last week of November we received a letter from IRS. It appears that the year we sold our house he didn't show it on income taxes. Supposedly they sent letters explaining this, but as God is my witness I never saw them. That was six years ago, and we never made a cent on that house. He sold it to his oldest son, who he gave 50,000 for a downpayment. Pretty much all our retirement money was in that house. The son foreclosed on the house, and was never able to pay us back a dime.

Four years ago, when he was doing better, he went to a conservative website and shot his mouth off, as I do here, about OBummer. Somehow they got his name, and they came after him then threatening IRS stuff too. I thought that was settled. Do I have proof of that? No. But there were things that were just too coincidental.
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You may hear that they can only take 25% of a Social Security check, that is BS. They levied his two thousand dollar check for 1275.00. They gave us that information in a letter that we received the day before they did it. We now have to exist on 800.00 a month. We won't make it. Period.

I called a Tax Advocate from the IRS and she is working with me, but frankly she is new and doesn't have a clue. She is on vacation for Christmas now and won't be back until January 9th. She is hopeful that they will, because of his circumstances, put it in uncollectible status. There are no guarantees. We have no money to hire an attorney.

Since the end of last month I filed papers with the IRS for power of attorney, and I will be handling all his business now.

Some of you know that I lost my parents when we were all in an automobile accident when I was a child. I have no family, except my aunt left, and she has no money. I am an only child.

My husband had one sister who died two years ago.

On Christmas there were no gifts, except for my daughter who got a sweater and a few little things from her friends.

Just writing this has been a big breakthrough for me, as I don't like to tell anyone my troubles or ask for help.

When you live with someone with Alzheimer's you basically live alone. I have been strong, but this last situation is about to do me in… I have a deep abiding faith in God, if I didn't I don't know where I would be.

Thanks for this, whoever you choose, and more importantly thanks for listening GLP friends.
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